Archive for the ‘Events’ tag.
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (RSA) – 11 May
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2002 Turing Award recipients Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adelman, the inventors of the RSA algorithm, and public key cryptography. Dr. Pandurang Kamat, Principal Architect at Persistent Systems will talk about his work. After this, [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Judea Pearl – 9 Mar
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2011 Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl, followed by a “Turing 100″ quiz that teams of professionals and students can participate in. Judea Pearl was given the Turing award for the development of a calculus for probabilistic [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of John Backus (Fortran|BNF) – 2 Feb
The Turing100 Lecture Series come back with the 6th session. This time, there are two Technical talks, centered around the life and works of 1977 Turing Award recipient, Dr. John Backup. In addition to several other contributions, Dr Backus is well-known for his pioneering work on Fortran as well as the inventor of the Backus-Naur [...]
Event Report: VLSI Design Conference Pune 2013
(This is an event report of the VLSI Design Conference that was held in Pune in Jan 2013, by Shakthi Kannan. It originally appeared on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.) The 26th International Conference on VLSI Design 2013 and the 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems [...]
Life and Times of Alan Turing by Mathai Joseph
InnoVidya and IUCAA invite everyone to a lecture on the life and time of Alan Turing, widely considered the father of computer science, by Dr. Mathai Joseph, who can be considered one of the senior most computer scientists in Pune. Alan Turing, was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Jim Gray – By Anand Deshpande – 5 Jan
The Turing100 Lecture Series come back with the 6th session. This time, there are two Technical talks, centered around the life and works of 1998 Turing Award recipient, Dr. Jim Gray. Jim Gray made seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and implementions of real systems at Tandem, IBM, and Microsoft. Among his best [...]
Event Report: 7th IndicThreads Software Development Conference
(This is a live blog of the talks being given at the 7th IndicThreads Software Development Conference happening in Pune today and tomorrow. The slides of the individual talks will become available on the conference website tomorrow.) Keynote Address: Suhas Kelkar: Technology Is Just The Start The the keynote address was by Suhas Kelkar, CTO [...]
In50Hrs Pune – Idea-to-Prototype in one weekend – 14-16 Dec
In50hrs an idea-to-prototype event, where entrepreneurs (or idea smiths – people with just an idea that they want to see developed), developers, programmers, and product designers come together to work on audacious ideas and build working prototypes (mvp) over a weekend, is coming to Pune this weekend. Saager Mhatre (dexterous), a prominent Pune Techie, has [...]
Call For Speakers: WordCamp Pune 2013 (WordPress Developers)
(Update: This event has been postponed to 23/24 February. See updated details below.) Word Camp is a gathering of all the WordPress lovers in Pune on 23rd & 24th of February, 2013. It is organized by the WPoets, Span Shah, and volunteers from students of Modern College, where developers, designers, bloggers and casual users can [...]
Turing100 Event Report: Work of Butler Lampson – Systems
(This is a live-blog of Neeran Karnik‘s talk on Butler Lampson, as part of the Turing100 Lecture Series happening at Persistent. Since it is being typed during the talk, please forgive the typos and bad structuring of the article. This article is also very incomplete.) Butler Lampson has contributions in a wide area of computer [...]